The class has been asked to research production and distribution companies, and to investigate a company that produces similar films to the one we hope to produce.
What do production companies do?:
A production company provides the physical basis for works in performing arts, film, television, radio, and video. They are also in charge of the budget, casting and other recruitment (directors, cameramen etc.) for a movie. Production companies are also in charge of making the film a success or a failure.
What do distribution companies do?:
A distribution company is an individual or organisation who will represent films at festivals around the world and who will try to sell it to television, airlines and other platforms that show films. The main goal of a distribution company is to get films seen by the public, distribution companies also handle the marketing and production of films for home viewing (DVD, Download, Television etc). Often bigger films have different distributors representing them in different countries and different distributors handling the home-viewing production.
Paramount pictures:
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio and television production company distributor, ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood. Paramount has produced films like The Godfather, Sleepy Hollow, Interstellar and Star Trek. Paramount pictures are extremely versatile and produce many different genres of films, including crime dramas, action adventure, sci-fi, and children's cartoons. Paramounts budget for their films is usually high, with state of the art props, sound, costume, and more recently special effects and CGI.
Warner Bros. entertainment:
The warner bros. company is an American entertainment company based in Burbank California, the company produces film, television and music and is a major film studio. The Warner bros. company is also distributes a wide variety of film genres, including action/ adventure films like Pacific Rim, and The Dark Knight Rises, comedies (We're The Millers, Get Hard), and family entertainment such as The Lego Movie, Hugo and Despicable Me. Warner Bros. entertainment is known to distribute films at places like the Cannes film festival, Burbank international film festival and Toronto film festival.
Already you're showing some excellent understanding of key institutional ownership issues that we will explore further in preparation for Section B of the Exam. Good to see you bringing in our discussions from class in your posts and presenting with care.
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